Huge comet outburst reported, 17P/Holmes |
Huge comet outburst reported, 17P/Holmes |
Oct 24 2007, 02:11 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: 30-May 05 Member No.: 396 |
I didnt know in which category of the forum this should be reported:
http://www.fototime.com/%7BE39A64F6-CE74-4...%7D/picture.JPG http://perso.orange.fr/fkometes/images/com...422-9x5sz05.JPG Comet 17p/Holmes from 15 mag to 3!! Already visible to naked eye! |
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Oct 26 2007, 03:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
First of all, you guys in the UK have no monopoly on lousy weather correlated with astronomical phenomena. However, I am experiencing a random anomaly here.
This is really a beautiful little comet. We luckily have cloudless skies here, so I could easily identify it with my naked eyes. I could almost convince myself that if I slightly averted my eyes, it appeared as an extended object. In my 8-20x50 binos it was clearly a fuzzball, so I brought out my little 90 mm scope so I could observe it on a steady tripod. I saw no sign of a tail. The coma was circular, with the nucleus slightly off center. The color was a pretty, golden yellow. I couldn't see any of the green that some of the on-line astrophotographs show, but I was using a rather small scope. It appeared slightly brighter than delta Persei, which is a mag 3 star, so I can believe reports that experienced brightness estimators have been calling it 2.6-2.8 recently. -------------------- ...Tom
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